If you suddenly got £100,000,000,000 what would you do?

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22 Jul 2009, 6:31 am

- Buy a media conglomerate
- Donate some to worthy causes
- Set up a heap of scholarships etc. for financially disadvantaged students
- Hire a full time hitman/bodyguard
- Finally move out of home
- Begrudgingly give some to family members
- Open a casino
- Change my name to something cool sounding



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22 Jul 2009, 6:44 am

blue_bean wrote:
- Hire a full time hitman/bodyguard


I'm available. (Best to leave off the "hitman" part on official documents, though.)



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22 Jul 2009, 7:01 am

You are so hired 8)



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22 Jul 2009, 12:15 pm

1. Buy property in the middle of nowhere
2. Build an underground bunker
3. Fill said bunker with technology
4. Never leave said bunker
5. Live exactly as I do now, replacing a basement with a bunker; and a Pentium IV with a core i7


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24 Jul 2009, 2:51 pm

I'd take about $100 million and
give it to the State of Oregon
to help fill up a budget deficit.


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24 Jul 2009, 8:26 pm

Maybe I can consider putting the money in full into the Governator's pockets.... with strings attached.

I hope he can fund and improve California's community colleges.


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25 Jul 2009, 6:43 pm

Here's what a million million or trillion would look like:

http://www.mirror.co.uk/2009/04/03/what ... -21251618/



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25 Jul 2009, 6:51 pm

I think our stimulus money is going toward rebuilding the Governor's mansion, which was damaged in a fire last year (it was arson).


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26 Jul 2009, 2:37 am

Are you implying... govermental factors or some conspiracy theory behind it?


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27 Jul 2009, 6:46 pm

Move the lot to tax havens around the world and leave the UK.



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28 Jul 2009, 3:22 am

Give half to my mum to sort out the rest of the family with money.

Then have a trip in to space.
Travel the world.
Buy houses in Uk and another country that I like.
Buy a boat.
Get plastic surgery to make me thinner and prettier.
Do some degrees at really good universities
Study & learn about everything that interests me.



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28 Jul 2009, 3:44 am

1. Found a multi-million dollar media company
2. Build a convention center for my alma mater that bears my name
3. Donate some to worthy charities (PeTA, Greenpeace, and ALF absolutely barred)
4. Invest in the stock market
5. Give to my parents
6. Buy myself a mansion, a car, and a private Airbus 320
7. Save the rest in the bank.



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29 Jul 2009, 2:44 pm

I'd hand the money over to Boris Johnston with a note, requesting that he put all 500 Routemasters that are in Britain on the streets of London, and to get the second generation models of the same buses made, so that people with physical disabilities can enjoy the same experience. I'd also tell him in that letter, to pay his arch rival who keeps discouraging him from following his vision, 2 Million Pounds to shut up and put up.

There are reasons that my username is CockneyRebel, and they all have to do with London.


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29 Jul 2009, 4:31 pm

OK...that's a stupid amount of money so let's go wild here.

First off: Move out of this armpit of a country (UK) and go live in the US. Get the investment visa thing: invest suitable amounts in several businesses with reliable enough returns and which will create American jobs to enable us to stay in the country.
Buy a craftsman house in Fremont, an apartment in downtown Seattle and a cabin in the San Juans. And an arts center, with attached gallery, store, coffee shop and gig venue. And, just for fun, a recording studio.
Get a hot tub.
Get hubby a Harley Fatboy, on condition he actually learns to ride the thing properly. Also, whatever ridiculously priced camera (I'm guessing Hasselblad but it's not my area) he deems necessary for his photographic career.
Pay Peter Buck whatever stupid amount of money it takes for him to part with Kurt Cobain's original Fender Jag-Stang.
Start a magazine for young women that's genuinely body-friendly and promotes positive living and empowerment rather than buying pointless products.
Pay off the mortgages of my brother, niece and nephew.
Pay to set up a small museum (preferably close to the local airfield) to house my uncle's collection of WWII memorabilia. (Has to be seen to be believed. I suspect he's the other Aspie in the family. What he doesn't know about Spitfires isn't worth knowing. Or used to, because he now has dementia and someone's got to do something about all that stuff before it gets thrown out by the house clearance people when he has to go into care. :( )
Donate to a few worthy causes.
Have a trip into space (thanks, misswoofalot).
Visit Bali, Tibet, Cappadocia and various bits of Europe.
And find some safe (ha!) way to invest the rest so we're sorted for life...


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30 Jul 2009, 9:56 am

I'll keep it secret (I might get killed)


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30 Jul 2009, 10:24 am

i would advertise on the internet that i had 100 billion and i wanted to talk to someone who could sell me the andromeda galaxy.

i am sure the owner would soon come forward and be prepared to accept 100 billion pounds for it.

then when the transaction was done, i would be the proud owner of andromeda.

what a bargain!! ! that is like $1 per star. hee hee hee.